Only because they lacked effort or entertainment. I'm sorry I don't fit into your perfect internet scenario where everyone is supposed to up-vote garbage out of some hip ironic sense of internet humour only overweight nerds can appreciate. Survival of the fittest counts you out, ho.

I have a different opinion. You can't tell if something lacks effort. I believe you downvoted them to get them off the homepage. I can't be sure if you like them or not, but it's happened before that users here like a site so much that they start to hate it. Maybe because they didn't think of that before, or maybe because it was original. But I don't need to know if you liked those sites or not.YTMND now is not about the fittest, it's about who cheats the most, despite some lucky exceptions. Usually, cheaters in real life go to jail.

The interesting thing is, I nor most anyone else couldn't care less about your opinion. You came to my site with an opinion that wasn't necessary. Everybody already knows I have a strict voting standard. Wouldn't your boycott be accomplished more effectively if you said nothing at all in tandem with your non-vote? That would really send me a message.

When you boycott something, you go out and say people "hey, stop buying this!" or "hey, stop doing that!". I'm not doing any of that, I just refuse to vote on your site, it's no big deal, I've done this many times before. You are just joking about the "preferences", come on! I was talking about your site preferences! Don't be rude, please.

Timaeus, a lot of your arguments are poorly reasoned or evidenced, so since kekko seems to be done with this bickering (and I don't blame him), I'm going to refute some claims of yours.

1. You claim that kekko's opinion was unnecessary and that most people couldn’t care less about it. Okay, the second part of that claim is quite true, but you’re wrong on the first part. To rephrase, you are saying that him [i]voicing[/i] his opinion is unnecessary (because, technically, opinions are completely necessary for people to have any sort of perspective).

No, his opinion was not, strictly speaking, necessary to voice, but for that matter, whose is? Although opinions are not entirely necessary to voice on their own merit, I argue that in most situations, voicing an opinion is very necessary to make one’s self understood. In addition, opinions are also necessary for any sort of debate or disagreement to exist. Since the above comment chain is both of these, one must agree that the voicing of one’s opinion is absolutely necessary.

And let’s be clear about something: kekko's initial comment was not an opinion; it was a statement. You were the first one to voice an opinion here, so if anyone’s opinion was unnecessary, it was yours.

2. You claim to have downvoted (and yes, you did implicitly acknowledge that you were downvoting in your first reply) because all of the sites in the U&C and Top Rated lacked effort or entertainment. That’s fine. You’re voicing your opinion with your 1-star ratings. But in doing this, you have to acknowledge that you are essentially downvoting these sites in favor of your own site, a site that most of us can agree possesses both effort and entertainment. Again, that’s your business. Do I find it unethical? Sure, but that’s just my opinion, you see. Facts are facts, and you did downvote the page in favor of your site.

3. You claim that kekko envisions this perfect scenario where everyone is supposed to upvote garbage. I gather that you have no idea what kind of user kekko is and are only going off of his user profile.

First off, he has a voting spread made almost entirely of 5s. I gather that you have interpreted these as upvotes. I also gather that you viewed a couple of these sites and found them to be garbage. Therefore, kekko only upvotes garbage, right?

Firstly, whether or not sites are garbage are strictly opinion. Secondly, have you ever considered that maybe he only votes on sites he likes? If you had taken a clue from his initial comment, you might have been able to figure this out (rather than spewing about some boycotting business, which I’ll get to in a minute).

The much more dubious part of your claim here is that kekko wants everyone to vote like him. He has left comments in the last news posting that declare something quite different. From what I can tell, all he wants is for the voting alts to be banned and for YTMND not to die. Your claim here is nothing more than baseless conclusions riddled with bias.

4. You claim that everyone knows of your strict voting standards. The first part of this claim is completely inaccurate. If everyone knew of your voting standards, why didn’t kekko? Okay, so you didn’t literally mean everyone, but you did imply that a majority of people currently using YTMND are familiar with the way you vote. I highly doubt that.

For one, this is a completely different place than it used to be, with completely different users. Maybe everyone knew of your voting standards at one time, but that’s long ago. Unless you’re someone like Umfuld or jimmm, hardly anyone these days has heard of your voting habits, if indeed they’ve even heard of you.

The second part of your claim says that you have strict voting standards. If this is the case, then you should vote 1 on anything and everything that you feel lacks effort or entertainment. How, then, did you end up voting a 5 on [site oprahbees:site]? Maybe you somehow found it entertaining, but if you truly vote on effort, then there is no way that you could have used that criteria to vote on such an effortless site. Entertainment is completely subjective, but effort can be measured very objectively—in other words, you can’t write this one off as opinion. Yes, you can accuse me of cherry-picking, but in order for that accusation to fly, you have to admit that your voting standards are not strict enough to pass inspection.

5. You claim that kekko not voting on your site is boycotting. As you yourself implied, he’s not doing a very good job boycotting your site because he’s commenting so much. Perhaps that’s because he’s not boycotting, which is indeed what he said.

So how do you explain the non-vote? Well, this invites speculation, as no one entirely knows this but kekko. Judging by the first comment, though, I gather that it is because he feels your site to be worth a good rating but is unwilling to vote as such because you downvoted the front page. He finds this in poor taste, but he isn’t one to downvote, so what other option is there?

This is not boycotting. He isn’t trying to drive you to behave a certain way by not, as you say, dealing with your site. He [i]is[/i] dealing with your site, only in comment form, and I’m pretty sure the comments have been far more effective than a single vote would be.If you think you can disprove anything I’ve said here without being disrespectful or making even more baseless claims in the process, I’ll happily listen.

Timaeus, a lot of your arguments are poorly reasoned or evidenced, so since Lastimero seems to be done with this bickering (and I don't blame him), I'm going to refute some claims of yours.

Lastimero once told me in a PM that someone once called him the "best new user of 2010," similar to a claim that Umfuld made, documented in the hilariously updated List of Trolls wiki entry. can someone please find out who made those entries and PM me? this is an actual request.

The objective is filling the YTMND Recently Created section with sites that are valuable and worthwhile, for at least 24 hours (from 6PM EST / 11PM UTC Saturday January 22 2011 to 6PM EST / 11 PM UTC Sunday January 23 2011.)If you accept, you should upload at least 3 sites, but you can contribute with just one."

There are rules valid for the duration of the flash mob (where not specified.) If you follow them Program 9 will be a success:1. Only upload sites that can be considered worth a watch. You can use fads if you wish, but do not use loud sounds, ear rapes, shocking images, animal cruelty, racism. If you do that the other members of the flash mob might consider voting 1. You are allowed to use pornography as long as you follow the YTMND Terms. It is not advisable to make inside jokes.2. Vote fairly. That means 5 for a well conceived and flawless YTMND, down to 1 for a poorly done and/or unacceptable YTMND. Unacceptable YTMNDs contain at least one of the following: loud sounds, ear rapes, shocking images, animal cruelty, racism. It is worth noting that every member of the flash mob is a trusted user and/or has had at least 5 websites on the Top Rated section. Voting is not mandatory, but highly encouraged. Do not use fake accounts to vote.3. Add a special tag to your sites in order to be recognized among the other members of the flash mob. A list of tags is available at the bottom of this message.

you fukin suck. what have you done that's relevant? you are a limp dicked old fat ass queer. and a pedophile too...!! forgot to mention your mom needs to wash your chuncky jizz flakes off her lips before she sucks my goats balls again...